SUMMARY

• Worked seamlessly in both QA and QC departments in the Market Research, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Energy, Finance sectors over the last 8 years
• Extensive experience in manual testing and automation testing
• Core expertise in User Acceptance Testing
• Highly experienced in cross - browser testing
• Experience includes testing Web applications
• Well-versed with all models of SDLC including Waterfall, V, Prototype and Spiral models
• Exposure to Agile process and methodologies
• Thorough experience in implementing STLC
• Created hybrid automation frameworks and executed automation scripts for regression testing using HP QTP
• Hands-on experience in using automation testing tool Selenium
• Established standardization for best practices across all the business units of the organization for processes.
• Responsible for the implementation of Quality Assurance guidelines by teams across the company for process manuals
• Experience in developing user training documents
• Good understanding of CMMI guidelines
• Interacted with Developers regarding business/functional requirements, bugs, enhancements and test case review meetings
• Expertise in both Positive and Negative testing of the application
• Effectively involved in bug tracking using Quality Center, Bugzilla and Jira
• Efficient in testing Products as wells as Projects
• Collected Test metrics on regular basis and coordinated with the team for timely project delivery
• Experience in executing SQL queries and xml validation
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools
• Strong experience in working well independently as well as effectively in teams
• Eye for detail, excellent communication skills, efficient team management, zeal to excel, commitment to quality while adhering to deadlines, self-motivated and strive to achieve goals with determination
• Engage in online testing activities such as on 99tests.com, usertesting.com
• Prior experience includes copyediting and proofreading in the publishing industry for approximately 2 years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in mapping the test scripts built in excel spreadsheet within the HP Quality Center.
• Identified defects found during the testing process and documented the test results using HP Quality Center.
• Provided daily status report to the Team Lead and project manager.
• Attended weekly status meeting and considering the requirement changes.
• Created Test Plans and Test Scripts by analyzing the Business requirements and System Requirements of the Application.
• Executed test cases manually for the web application.
• Responsible for executing test cases and reported test results to developers using Quality Center.
• Participated in weekly reviews, walkthroughs and presentations to keep the entire testing team on the same platform.
• Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed various test cases.
• Performed Functional testing for new developments/enhancements.
• Developed Manual scripts using Quality Center to perform functional and regression testing.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application.
• Verified and Validated the Manual Test scripts.
• Assisted Quality Center Admin in creating Users, Domains and their access levels.
• Developed test scripts for Acceptance test and Regression tests and executed them.
• Regular interaction with Developers to discuss various problems and issues.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center for Test management and execution of test cases.

Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center, QTP, VB script, SQL Server 2008

Confidential

Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in User Acceptance Testing.
• Role involved lead responsibilities such as delegating tasks, compiling subordinate reports, imparting training sessions on quality, coordination with managers of other teams etc
• Thorough experience with all levels of testing including Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing along with strong experience in preparing reports.
• Conducted browser compatibility testing on Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome.
• Interacted with the production teams and liaised with business analysts regarding product specifications and implementation of business logic by developer team.
• Reviewed test cases prepared by offshore team in accordance with defined guidelines and processes.
• Participated in peer reviews of test artifacts.
• Conducted integration, system and User Acceptance Testing for all modules in case of product upgrades.
• Conducted smoke testing as well as Integration Testing, System and User Acceptance Testing for new products.
• Conducted Regression Testing whenever code changes were made.
• Generated Test Metrics showcasing number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly updates to management.
• Prepared and updated all business stakeholders regarding project status with weekly, monthly and quarterly reports.
• Suggested product enhancements to management before product launches for enhancing user-friendliness and consistency.
• Authored quarterly reports for senior management’s perusal to be used as input for product enhancements in the forthcoming product releases.
• Extensively involved in Quality Assurance process.
• Responsible for the coordination and creation of documentation such as user manuals, help guides and other user-friendly literature by all teams in the company.
• Responsible for implementation of QA best practices by all teams in the company.
• Coordinated with offshore project team members to achieve project goals through status meetings and reviews.
• Worked collaboratively with development team and production teams in testing complex features and in the overall enhancement of software product quality in terms of functionality, user-friendliness and consistency.
• Conducted internal audits of processes across all the teams in the organization to ensure uniformity in process manuals and reporting methodologies.
• Carried out test documentation using MS Office - Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Bugzilla.

Environment: Windows XP, .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Office, Bugzilla

Confidential, Lexington

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified Business Scenarios and prepared Test Cases accordingly.
• Conducted UAT as part of main responsibility.
• Worked on the modules in Personal Banking section.
• Tracked daily deliverables and update management that test execution is aligning with project schedule.
• Exposure to xml validation.
• Maintained strong relationship & good rapport with on-shore & off-shore team members.
• Prepared Test plan conducted Test execution, Status updates and raised Defects in QC tool.
• Extracted status reports from QC and updated all the stakeholders periodically.

Environment: MS SQL Server, MS Office, QC

Confidential

Quality Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Analysis and requirements gathering.
• Studying functional requirement specifications, technical design documents and related artifacts.
• Participated in BRD walkthroughs and analyzed business requirements, design document and prepared requirement review report.
• Converted business requirements into test objectives.
• Involved in Data analysis and prepared required test data for validation of test cases.
• Reviewed test cases prepared by offshore team in accordance with defined guidelines and processes.
• Liaised with Business Analysts and responsible for driving issue-log meetings on regular basis.
• Used HP Quality Center for Test management and execution of test cases.
• Automated manually written test cases by using QTP.
• Developed automated scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression testing.
• Used Parameterization in QTP extensively to perform Data-Driven testing.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Generated Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Prepared and updated all business stakeholders regarding project status with daily reports.
• Coordinated with offshore project team members to achieve project goals through status meetings and reviews.
• Conducted Regression Testing whenever some code module is changed.
• Participated in peer reviews of test artifacts.
• Conducted walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss solution designs, requirements clarifications and defect resolutions.

Environment: VB Script, QTP, HTML, JavaScript, ASP.Net, Oracle, SQL

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automation testing of the website, with a key role in front-end GUI testing of the application in Internet Explorer.
• Documented test plans and test cases based on the Use Case Documents.
• Responsible for Functional, Regression testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Conducted functional testing and analyze technical testing results to verify compliance with functional and technical requirements.
• Developed and maintained test cases and test scripts; provided daily status feedback to the test lead.
• Assigned priority status to bugs and coordinated with developers to fix bugs in stipulated timeframes.
• Updated existing test cases based on the new requirements.
• Continuously maintained and updated test documentation for my areas of responsibility.
• Involved in submitting Bug Reports on weekly basis.
• Used Excel spread sheets to list problems for different modules.
• Performed Regression testing on the entire application and logged Issues using Jira.
• Created Automation frame work (Hybrid framework) for some parts of regression testing.
• Experience in writing and executing automated VB scripts for the regression testing of the Dealer module using QTP.
• Created automation scripts using Descriptive Programming as well as with Shared Repositories.
• Created Function Libraries and Driver Scripts.
• Executed SQL queries.

Environment: Java, HTML, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP, QTP, MS Excel, MS Word, Jira